The network declared that a ruling party candidate would win with 39.2 percent of the vote.

"By pursuing advertisers and demographics rather than a mass audience, the networks have declared they don't need blacks in their audience."

Miss World lost its franchise with Thames Television, since operations of the said network had declared their closure at the end of that year.

As the total of declared state-by-state victories added up to 270 electoral votes, each network declared Mr. Bush the winner.

In Hong Kong, the major index plunged when networks declared Mr. Bush the winner.

First, the networks declared that Mr. Gore won Florida.

All three networks had already declared Mr. Clinton the winner.

And in the West, both parties need money to get voters to the polls before the networks declare one candidate or the other a winner.

The decision came about the time that the networks were declaring Mr. Gore the winner in Michigan and Florida.

A new newsmagazine that the network had firmly declared would be on the schedule has been put on hold until midseason.